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9Jul/10

Fishery adapts years after N.L. cod closure

Fishery adapts years after N.L. cod closure "It's science and it's sustainability and they go hand in hand," he said. Science, though, has had problems of its own. With the decline in the commercial value of traditional fisheries, successive federal governments...
Source: CBC News

8Jul/10

Restaurants enlisted in anti-Pebble Mine campaign

Restaurants enlisted in anti-Pebble Mine campaign The company says Alaska has an excellent record of fisheries and mining coexisting. Copyright 2010 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published,...
Source: KTUU

2Jul/10

A Brief History of Fisheries

A Brief History of Fisheries The crazy economics of open access fisheries is one of the main reasons some countries (including the U.S.) subsidize fisheries – some analysts think that globally, subsidies...
Source: Environmental Defense Fund

26Jun/10

Frankenfoods

Frankenfoods At the same time our fisheries are collapsing. Tuna and other big fish are about to go extinct (see this NY Times article). We’re overgrazing which...
Source: Balloon Juice

24Jun/10

Unpredictable fishery economics guide ocean’s populations

Unpredictable fishery economics guide ocean's populations Since then, fisheries have had to reach to increasing depths for less-profitable fish. Because the price indexes of different fish are unpredictable...
Source: Ars Technica

20Jun/10

Candidates weigh in on seafood

Candidates weigh in on seafood We have one of the best-managed fisheries on the planet, and we need to make sure we keep basing decisions on science and not on politics," Samuels said. The high...
Source: Anchorage Daily News

17Jun/10

Local voices: frustration growing over Senate plan on Tongass logging

Local voices: frustration growing over Senate plan on Tongass logging An arbitrary bill? "They have taken it on themselves to pick old growth reserves and fisheries habitat to save or give away, not based on scientific reasons but political ones," Judy Magnuson, community secretary for Port...
Source: Mongabay.com

13Jun/10

Sturgeon: On the edge of extinction

Sturgeon: On the edge of extinction Russia's wild capitalism and murky reforms of the 1990s dealt a severe blow to fisheries such as the one in Zelenga, a tiny, once-flourishing town...
Source: The Independent

12Jun/10

US teen sailor rescued from Indian Ocean

US teen sailor rescued from Indian Ocean "A transfer to the French fisheries patrol vessel Osiris will take place off the islands in about two days, depending on the weather, for a return to Reunion...
Source: The Age

11Jun/10

Global: USA/Nigeria: By way of comparison

Global: USA/Nigeria: By way of comparison Oil in water damages fisheries and contaminates water that people use for drinking and other domestic purposes. There are a number of reasons why...
Source: Pambazuka